Clean up Nepal is a for-purpose, non-government organization registered in Nepal in 2014 that envisions communities having access to a solid waste management and water, sanitation and hygiene system with the associated knowledge and resources that will enable them to live a healthy, disease-free life. Clean up Nepal works to provide an enabling environment to improve sanitation and hygiene in Nepal by connecting, educating and empowering local communities and relevant stakeholders through a people-centred, strength based approach to improve community health, wellbeing and opportunity. Clean up Nepal achieves this by:

1. Improving public health and the environment through systematic improvements of existing solid waste management systems and helping set up new systems where none exist, and
2. Preventing deaths caused by hygiene related diseases through our sanitation and hygiene education programs, and construction of toilets at schools.

Clean up Nepal’s development work is underpinned by its working areas - waste management, and water, sanitation and hygiene with the cross-cutting themes of sustainable livelihoods, and research and advocacy. To understand and address key challenges Nepalese face in waste management, Clean up Nepal also undertakes waste characterisation, and research on the challenges faced in the waste sector, and potential improvements to existing waste management system. For more information, please visit Clean up Nepal's website at www.cleanupnepal.org.np or facebook page at www.facebook.com/cleanupnepal.

After the Nepal earthquake in April 2015, Clean up Nepal was very active in relief and reconstruction work. Through a highly transparent approach, Clean up Nepal mobilised funding, and provided food and drinking water supplies to 19,000 people, constructed 300 temporary shelters, put together hygiene packs according to the International Sphere Standards, and distributed these to over 2,000 families in rural districts of Nepal.

Building on this, Clean up Nepal has also played an active role in the construction of latrines and hygiene education programming post-earthquake as part of its Swochha Bidhyalaya program. With the generous support from Ncell, Clean up Nepal has commenced construction of latrine blocks at four government schools that were severely lacking adequate sanitation facilities, which once complete will be of direct benefit to over 1,076 students. The four schools where the construction work is ongoing are Shree Bhagyodaya Higher Secondary School at Sankhu, Kathmandu; Shree Baluwa Secondary School at Deupur, Kavre; Shree Panchakanya Primary School at Suryamati, Nuwakot; and Shree Chetrapal Lower Secondary School at Chaturale, Kavre.

Clean up Nepal’s Swochha Bidhyalaya program will also include a four-part workshop that consists of modules on personal hygiene, family hygiene, community hygiene, and sustainable community living. The teachers of these four schools will be trained to deliver these workshop, who will then provide this hygiene education to school students over the nine-month period of the project, and on an ongoing basis as part of the school curriculum after the completion of the program.